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Report by Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior, on missionary work in the Cape Province, South Africa. The report asses the work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Parow parish (Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. and Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.); Matroosfontein (Fr. Marcellus O’Carroll OFM Cap.); Athlone (Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. 1900-1947); the Welcome Estate (Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., 1913-1967); Langa (Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.).

[1950-1956]
Tanzania, Tanga, Eugene Arthurs
Report compiled by Eugene Arthurs, Prefect Apostolic of Tanga, regarding the missionary development within the Prefecture Apostolic of Tanga in connection with the application for the elevation of the prefecture to the status of diocese.

Report and minutes of meeting between Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Regular Superior. The meeting was held at the Sancta Maria mission station, Lukulu, Northern Rhodesia. The minutes refer to various decrees, appointments and recommendations made in relation to missionary work in Barotseland, and in South Africa.

Report of the financial committee of the Diocese of Livingstone, Zambia. It is noted that the committee was formed in February 1965 ‘as a result of the discussion on diocesan finance at the Conference of the Superiors of Mission Stations. All realised that our commitments were much beyond our resources …’. Reference is made to funds for educational and medical services at various missions. With a covering letter from Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.

Includes; principles of financial planning of the Presentation, financial guidelines given to Presentation Convents, financial administration of India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Philippines, New Zealand, U.S.A., England and Ireland, "Generalate Fund", "Mission fund".

Includes entries under the headings; "The approach", "Sister Lucy Troy's address to conference", "Overview of conference", "Challenge", "Hopes, fears, expectations", "Change", "Role of religious in Church", "Evangelization", "The ideal for 1990", "Building bridges", "Statements from conference", "Names of participants".

Report by Gráinne Mallon & Associates, 6 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, in association with Shane Redmond, auctioneer, on the properties held by the Capuchin Order on Church Street. The report delineates the existing properties held by the Capuchin Order (ecclesiastical premises, the Friary, Father Mathew Hall and the Day Centre) and makes recommendations in respect of rationalising the use of the properties in the context of urban renewal and development schemes proposed for the area. With a cover letter from Shane Redmond. The file also includes copy maps and plans. The cover is endorsed: ‘Carried out by Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap. with a view to selling Father Mathew Hall’. With a letter from Shane Redmond (28 Oct. 1997) recommending that the ‘Order examine the many options the property can generate and that a decision may be taken about the future of its most influential friary in the capital city, based on the level of services the Capuchins will be able to provide there in the new millennium’.